Charleston principal now on leave was promoted despite active investigation

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – A Charleston County Faculty District principal who was promoted on Friday then positioned on administrative go away on Tuesday is now the topic of an investigation from the South Carolina Human Affairs Fee.

Paperwork state the company has been investigating an Equal Employment Alternative Fee criticism in opposition to newly-promoted Septima P. Clark Academy Principal Carolyn Anderson for greater than two months.

Anderson was promoted to that place on Friday regardless of the criticism after serving as the varsity’s interim principal for the reason that starting of the varsity yr.

Within the criticism filed with the SCHAC on Feb. 16, a male worker accuses Anderson of undesirable touching and sexual feedback and gestures. He says she would give particulars about her intercourse life together with her husband and even discover administrative duties for him to do exactly to be near her.

The worker additionally alleges that Anderson discriminated in opposition to him on the idea of his gender by requiring him to intervene in scholar fights, even after he suffered an damage that he’s nonetheless recovering from months later. He claims feminine academics weren’t held to the identical commonplace.

After the worker heard Anderson was promoted on Friday, he despatched an e-mail to the entire Charleston County Faculty Board members and interim superintendent Don Kennedy on Saturday, laying out his allegations and together with the official EEOC criticism. In that e-mail, he hooked up plenty of provocative photographs he says got here from Anderson’s social media and what seems to be screenshots of safety footage inside the varsity. He says the photographs present Anderson is unfit to be a management place.

“The Interim Principal doesn’t symbolize what Skilled Management represents, seems, or is predicted in any of Charleston County Colleges. Her conduct at finest is unbecoming of a principal, egregious and reprehensible,” the e-mail states.

The college district has not commented on why Anderson was placed on go away or who’s accountable for selling her.

“As said beforehand, Septima P. Clark Academy’s principal is at the moment on administrative go away associated to personnel issues for which we can not remark whereas the investigation is ongoing,” the district stated in an announcement. “We perceive the questions of timing brought on by the principal’s appointment announcement and the following administrative go away, however that doesn’t change the need of finishing a radical investigation.”

Additionally it is unclear if the district was even conscious she was the topic of an EEOC investigation, regardless of paperwork displaying the district was served on Feb. 21. Faculty Board Member Kristen French stated she was unaware of the allegations or the promotion.

“My understanding is that employees are investigating the state of affairs and any inside breakdown in communication relating to the EEOC criticism,” French stated.

Board members should not required to overview or approve principal promotions.

The district had 30 days to answer that EEOC criticism. The Human Affairs Commissions says the district has not but responded and the following step within the case can be to ship them a subpoena.

That is nonetheless an open investigation with the SCHAC, and thus far, they haven’t made any findings.

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